Climate Central bills itself as "a think tank with a production studio." This is what they do:
Using both staff experts and an extended blue ribbon network of scientists, Climate Central assesses and synthesizes the latest science, technology, and policy proposals. Our experienced communications team turns that information into creative, easily understood, and graphically rich pieces for print, television and the web.
They’ve got some serious names behind the project, including John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco before they were snapped up by the Obama administration. (Full disclosure: Grist board member Ben Strauss is a member of the CC team.)
CC just got up and running recently—the full site doesn’t debut until Spring—but it’s already turning out some great stuff. The latest is "Iowa: Corn and Climate," a video that recently aired on PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Here it is (starts about a minute in):
The coolest thing, though, is that the video comes with an annotated transcript that takes virtually every sentence and substantiates it with a relevant bit of science, news report, or infographic. You get the public-friendly video and the wonk-friendly reference work, all in one package. Not bad.
CC aims to be an impeccably credible source of information on a highly contested set of subjects. It looks like they’re off to a great start.
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biodiversivist Posted 4:49 am
14 Feb 2009
Low oil prices are hurting ethanol? They were saying high oil prices were hurting them last summer--uneconomical, environmentally devastating.
"...ethanol has taken a lot of excess corn that we had in the state..."
The excess corn myth. Where did all of this "excess" corn go? Was it shot into space or was it sold on the global market?
"...ethanol production has created a lot of jobs..."
Define the term "a lot." I see a total of two people working this farmer's 900 acre corn field. It sure does not create a lot of jobs per square foot.
Switching from 50-50 corn to 65% corn is why soy is grown in the Amazon.
"...What happens in Iowa, should stay in Iowa...so why should our biofuels policy depend on something we have no control over?..."
Cause, global warming is global, that's why farmer Brown.
Feed for animals is food.
"...The farmers are hoping to preserve their way of life [their business models that turn 900 acres of land into a giant fertilized moonscape that then grows corn] and their land [which is just dirt used to hold fossil fuel derived chemicals and genetically modified seeds]...."
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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